Research progress on classification, characteristics and mechanism of antitumor drugs

Malignant tumors are potential killers of human life, seriously endangering people’s physical health. As far as the treatment malignant is concerned, there exist many therapeutic methods such surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, among which chemotherapy an important means antitumor therapy. Chemotherapy antineoplastic agents can be divided into alkylating agents, metalloplatinum, plant drugs, antimetabolite, antibiotics, hormones, molecular targeted and peptides, This article reviews current drug characteristics, mechanism action research directions various anti-tumor drugs in order to provide references for clinical treatment.